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-In August, the RIAA sued the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.seeking to require the school to identify a network user alleged to have illegally offered hundreds of copyrighted music recordings for Internet downloading. The suit against MIT, and similar lawsuits against other universities to identify users, came after some schools balked at the RIAA's requests, which were made under the 1998 federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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-The research released today shows that four in ten people are unable to name a single online music service at all.
-Nearly nine in ten GB consumers (85%) who are aware of online music services, have only heard of two established brands - iTunes and Amazon.
-Jill Johnstone, International Director, Consumer Focus, said: "The music industry is shooting itself in the foot by not promoting legal online music services. If filesharing is causing the damage the music industry claims, why aren't they putting more effort in to promoting the legal alternatives? "Before we go down the enforcement road it is only fair to ask the music industry to do more to make people aware of the legal options."
-The length of time a music service has been online does not translate into high consumer awareness. 7Digital was one of the first legal online music services but is only named by 1 per cent of consumers. Established streaming services such as Spotify and last.fm score low with only 2 per cent and 1 per cent of consumers naming them respectively.
-A new twist on file sharing is holding out the promise of allowing millions of people to share their song collections online, at no cost--and without legal risk.
-The trick involves marrying peer-to-peer technology with Internet radio. Using that combination, some companies are creating powerful tools that automatically broadcast people's private playlists onto the Web.
-Safeguards are in place to prevent unauthorized downloads, ensuring copyrights are honored.
-Few companies have staked out this territory yet. A handful of pioneers--including Apple Computer, Virgin Digital and upstarts Mercora and Live 365--are just beginning to see demand.
-"We're doing for music what Google did for the Web," Mercora CEO Srivats Sampath said.
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Cleary, Sharon. "Debating Music File Sharing." Cornell Chronicle Online. 6 Nov. 2003.
Web. 05 Apr. 2010. http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/11.6.03/filesharing_debate.html.
Annotation:
-In August, the RIAA sued the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.seeking to require the school to identify a network user alleged to have illegally offered hundreds of copyrighted music recordings for Internet downloading. The suit against MIT, and similar lawsuits against other universities to identify users, came after some schools balked at the RIAA's requests, which were made under the 1998 federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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"More must be done to make Consumers aware of legal options to buy music online before an enforcement approach is taken." M2PressWIRE (2010): Newspaper Source. EBSCO. Web. 5 Apr. 2010.
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=16PU2298796599&site=src-live
Annotation:
-The research released today shows that four in ten people are unable to name a single online music service at all.
-Nearly nine in ten GB consumers (85%) who are aware of online music services, have only heard of two established brands - iTunes and Amazon.
-Jill Johnstone, International Director, Consumer Focus, said: "The music industry is shooting itself in the foot by not promoting legal online music services. If file sharing is causing the damage the music industry claims, why aren't they putting more effort in to promoting the legal alternatives? "Before we go down the enforcement road it is only fair to ask the music industry to do more to make people aware of the legal options."
-The length of time a music service has been online does not translate into high consumer awareness. 7Digital was one of the first legal online music services but is only named by 1 per cent of consumers. Established streaming services such as Spotify and last.fm score low with only 2 per cent and 1 per cent of consumers naming them respectively.
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Kanellos, Micheal. "Music Sharing That's Free and Legal." 8 Nov. 2004. Web. 7 Apr. 2010.
-A new twist on file sharing is holding out the promise of allowing millions of people to share their song collections online, at no cost--and without legal risk.
-The trick involves marrying peer-to-peer technology with Internet radio. Using that combination, some companies are creating powerful tools that automatically broadcast people's private playlists onto the Web.
-Safeguards are in place to prevent unauthorized downloads, ensuring copyrights are honored.
-Few companies have staked out this territory yet. A handful of pioneers--including Apple Computer, Virgin Digital and upstarts Mercora and Live 365--are just beginning to see demand.
-"We're doing for music what Google did for the Web," Mercora CEO Srivats Sampath said.
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